MS Project Task Pane Add-in to use other browser than IE11

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UPDATE: I just figured the root cause is due to office.js task pane add-ins is always using IE11. I'm updating this post title to see if anyone knows a way to switch the default browser being used by the office task pane to any other browser than IE?

 

Hello all. I have some dev requirements that involves developing an office add-ins app for MS Project Desktop. I'm trying to utilize the MS Project task pane add-ins to load some sort of Grid/Table that will populate some data associated with the tasks in MS Project by calling an external web service/API. I also need to use the app so I can use the provided office.js library that allows reading/writing data to the project file.

 

I have been following the development steps and template from this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/project/project-add-ins

 

I was able to achieved what the above link provided:

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So to achieve my requirements, I'm tweaking the template given from the link above and I try to utilize/add a framework (Sencha JS - our company's product line has been using this for consistency) that basically templatize the queried data in a grid/table. However, the task pane add-ins remain blank and doesn't show anything at all. But if I take the sideloaded html page into a browser, that works fine and shows what I wanted.

 

Here is a snapshot of some dummy data with super basic grid that is successfully loaded when using browser:

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And here is the snapshot of the task pane that remains blank:

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I was wondering if anyone has ever done something that somewhat similar to this? I'm basically trying to load a custom web page in the task-pane for viewing purposes (Important - main requirement) on these data queried from an external sources and also the need to be able to read/write task data into the local project file. Therefore, I thought the app add-ins is the perfect combination.

 

Any insight/advice is really appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

 

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